Friday, 26 April 2013

DeceasedOnline's recent efforts concerning the cemetery records of Trafford Council (Manchester) can be examined here.Tyrone & Fermanagh researchers should check this out.Northumberland researchers should take note of the latest from FamilySearch. FamilySearch have also posted some new training videos.

Check out this idea from The National Archives. As they themselves say on Twitter: 'Sign up to our new community to join discussions, make suggestions and help develop & shape our online services'. Sounds promising.

Friday, 19 April 2013

First up, don't forget about the weekend offer of 'free marriage records' from Ancestry. Seems like you have to go into the site via .com rather than .co.uk but you can still conduct searches then filter them down to 'UK only', or whatever.

Friday, 12 April 2013

A very quiet week (again). There is virtually nothing to report today - the notable exception being the addition of 600,000 new Kent records to the FindMyPast collection. Other than that, we're scraping the bottom of the old barrel, I'm afraid. Anyway, here's what we've got...

Friday, 5 April 2013

As it's still a little quiet news-wise, I'll begin with a bit of self-promotion...

For those of you who have yet to secure a copy of the Family & Local History Quiz Book (see right-hand column), check out the free quiz from the same which appears in the latest issue of the excellent FFHS 'Really Useful Information Leaflet' - it's on page 15. The Quiz Book may have been published over a year ago but it's still in print and available in many formats - including a very cheap Kindle version - and it never goes out of date!

Tuesday, 2 April 2013

Some really great reading coming up ... which makes up for the continued lack of proper news!

We'll begin with that most excellent of efforts, the Lost Cousins Newsletter. I'm a bit late in reporting this piece of news so one or two of the offers have expired (apologies), but there is still plenty in there to take note of.

Chris Paton points out a slight reduction in the opening hours at Tyne & Wear Archives. This time of year often sees things like this being tinkered with, so best check your repository of interest before your next visit.

About Me

My name is Mick Southwick and I have been on the family/local history scene for 20+yrs. I live in N.E. England, but have interests throughout the UK. I sometimes pop up on the Web as 'HistoryMick', and my email address is micksouthwick@blueyonder.co.uk . I'd be happy to hear from you, even if it's just to say 'Hi'!